They went to Washington DC’s Malcolm X Park to celebrate themselves.They left feeling ashamed.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and White House advisor Stephen Miller arrived at the historic D.C.
site on Wednesday for a self-congratulatory event to honor National Guard troops that President Trump sent to the capital and has refused to take away.Instead, they faced a loud crowd — with sirens, horns, whistles, cheers, and a music setup — organized by local Washington residents who were fed up.
Stephen Miller, known for creating some of the harshest immigration policies in U.S.
history, tried to give a speech that split people into “builders and destroyers.” The irony of Miller — a man who has spent his life breaking apart families, communities, and constitutional rights — pretending to be a protector of civilization was clearly lost on him.The protesters’ loud noise wasn’t.
Hegseth, always eager to make a fool of himself, said the chaos was “perfect background noise” and called the protesters “ingrates” who “can’t see law and order and common sense in front of them.” He also claimed, seriously, that “there is nothing political about this exercise.”
It’s absurd to say that in a park full of cameras, with the Secretary of Defense, the Acting Attorney General, and Stephen Miller present.
Nothing political?
The deployment itself tells the whole story.
National Guardsmen have been stationed in Washington for months, against the clear wishes of local leaders and residents.And what have they been doing?Mostly walking through wealthy areas like Georgetown and Cleveland Park — neighborhoods with the lowest crime rates — checking their phones and vaping.
Meanwhile, the administration is now taking credit for the restoration of Malcolm X Park’s famous fountain — a project that was planned and paid for long before Trump ever claimed it.
The people of Washington DC didn’t ask for this occupation.
They didn’t want these speeches.And on Wednesday, they made sure Hegseth, Miller, and Blanche knew it — in the loudest, most glorious way possible.
The Trump administration came to Malcolm X Park to show strength.
The people of DC showed something even stronger: resistance.
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